Even Money Joins The Protest

In these dark times of crisis, everyone should participate to the emerging protests all around the world. Only if everybody stands up and gives voice to his dissent, things can change for good. Each one can do it in his own way, no matter how. Occupy George, for instance, is a great example of symbolic act. As part of the Occupy Wall Street protest in the United States, the project consist in giving away dollar bills printed with fact-based infographics.

The project’s aim is to inform people about America’s economic disparity between the healthy 1% and 99% of victims of the financial and political system. Occupy George wants to be a medium to make people more and more aware of the real situation we are facing. This project seems to give life to the exact opposite of the critical 1984 quote “Ignorance is strength”. Ignorance may be strength for that 1% (with some exception), but knowledge is power for the remaining 99.

Some of you may already know the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, a New York-based group famous for its technological approach to graffiti, expressed in innovative projects such as the Laser Tag. Yesterday, a development team consisting of Theodore Watson, Jamie Wilkinson, Chris Sugrue and Evan Roth, introduced the latest F.A.T. project Graffiti Markup…

“Dedicated to all of the uncredited modifiers, inventors, communicators, and public citizens whose work has changed our common landscape.” This is the first line of the publication ‘Public Phenomena’ by Temporary Services. The book is a celebration of urban interventions of the smallest kinds by ordinary citizens, entrepreneurs or artists, all uncredited and not done for the…

A temporary video game, art and music venue will open its doors in Manhattan on 42nd Street and 3rd Avenue next to Grand Central on October 4. (At least if we all together pledge the modest 6,000 dollar needed to create this place.) The new venue is an initiative of Babycastles, in conjunction with Showpaper….

Artisan crafts are making a revolutionary global comeback that goes beyond the coolness of bearded hipsters in Brooklyn. In the new economy more and more people demand authentic, locally produced, sustainable items that represent real value. Ireland has a unique history of craftsmanship, which could form a great basis for Dublin’s contemporary identity.